Month: July 2002

Standard Chartered Bank and CIBC World Markets (CIBC) have both implemented voice trading systems from Syntegra for their relocated dealing floors in New York. Both relocations were a result of the tragic events of September 11, and both banks suggest that Syntegra’s efforts immediately after those events played a part in their decision making process. […]

At a time when functionality and not liquidity is a key issue in the buy side’s choice of a portal, Currenex has thrown down the gauntlet to its competitors by launching its money market loans and deposits module. This product launch leaves FXall as the only FX portal supporting a single asset class. At the […]

Whilst there was some surprise at the timing of Atriax’s closure (it was widely acknowledged that it was in merger talks with rival FXall) few were surprised that it became the first name removed from the list of multibank portals (albeit swiftly followed by SunGard’s STN Treasury). What prompted a company, which at face value […]

ACI UK recently held the latest Roy Bridge Memorial Lecture, the annual event that is the centrepiece of the association’s programme. Bridge was a co-founder of ACI in 1955. The lecture was given by Ian Plenderleith, who until recently was executive director of the Bank of England and a member of the bank’s Monetary Policy […]

ACI’s Strategic Planning Group (SPG) presented a comprehensive marketing plan to the ACI Council in Luxembourg. The SPG was charged with producing the plan by the Council at November’s meeting in Paris, and has held three meetings since, undertaking what Mike Eastaway, chairman of the SPG, says has been, “A completely open and honest process.” […]

By John Kasp As infants we relied on our parents for our daily schedule, oblivious to personal time management or commitments. Not long after picking up the ability to walk, talk, read and write, things start getting complicated and sooner or later we end up with a little black book. Birthdays lead to parties, that […]

In a period of loose monetary policy and rising liquidity it is no surprise that there is a rise in commodity prices. Both the CRB and JoC commodity indices are rising currently. However the greater surprise perhaps is that economy-wide price pressures remain subdued. Pessimists would argue that the correlation between commodities’ price inflation and […]

By Arun Muralidhar, Managing Director, FX Concepts, Inc.1 As the currency overlay industry has gathered over 15 years of experience (eg, FX Concepts was asked by a pension fund to manage currency exposures in 1987), it is useful to take stock of the industry and the products it offers to ask if clients’ needs are […]